Poison-distributer.



PATENTED APR. 17, 1906.

F. SPLIT'TISTOSER. POISON DISTRIBUTER. APPLICATION FILED HARM, 1905.

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V kr' PATENTHD APR. 17, 1906. F. SPLITTSTOSBR. POISGN DISTRIBUTER. APPLICATION FILED MARA?, i905.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

FERDINAND SPIJITTSTOSER, OF NORTH BRANCH, MINNESOTA.

POISON-DISTRIBUTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed March 1*'7I 1905. Serial No. 250,517.

ing at North Branch, in the county of Chisago and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Poison- Distributers; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, suoli as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to poison-distributers adapted for use to spray potato-vines and various other plants with a liquid poison, and has for its object to improve the same in the several particulars hereinafter noted.

The invention consists of the novel devices f and combinations lof devices hereinafter deplan view of the improved machine.

scribed, and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure is a fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section on the line Q02 :l:2 of Fig. 1, some parts being left in full. Fig. 3 is a section on the line m3 ac3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line :t4 of Fig. 1.

The numeral 1 indicates the wheels, the nu- 1ncral2 the axle, and the numeral 3 the frame, of a two-wheeled truck, said frame being provided with shafts 4 and a whiiletree 5. One of the wheels is iixed on the axle 2 and the other is loose, so that the said axle will be positively driven under the advance movement of the machine, and at the same time themachine is adapted to turn corners, since the two wheels are independently movable.

Upon the frame 3 is mounted a barrel-like tank 6, shown as disposed horizontally with its axis extending longitudinally of the machine. In its upper portion this tank is provided with a large disk-like inlet-spout 7, which is normally closed by a disk-like lid 8. In'the bottom of said tank in a line with said .spout 7 is a cylindrical discharge-,spout 9,

whicl extends considerably above the eX- treme bottom of said tank. Working tele,- scopically lwithin the discharge spout or cylinder 9 is a piston-like valve 10, which is provided with a plurality of vertical passages that are .adapted under adownward movement of said valve to be closed by a flexible disk-like flapper 11, csecured at its central portion tothe hub of said valve. 4Under an upward movement of said valve its iiapper sages in said valve.

11 Vyields downward and opens up the pas- Said valve isorgidly secured to the lower end of a long verticallydisposed valve-stem 12, the upper end of which works through a central perforation in the lid 8 and is pivotally attached lto one end of a walking-beam 13, which is centrally pivoted to a bracket 14, rigidly secured to the I exterior of the tank 6. A conical screen 15 is secured to the lower end of the valve-stem 12 and to the marginal upper portion of the valve 10 in such-manner that any liquid passing through the outlet-tube 9 must pass through said screen or filter. Rigidlyv secured to the valve-stem just above said screen or lter and just above the outlet-tube 9 is a disk-like deflecting-plate 16, and rigidly secured to said stem above said deector is a perforated agitator in the form of a bracket having laterally-extended perforated feet or flanges.

To the outer end of the walking-beam 13 is loosely pivoted a pitman 18, carried by the crank of a shaft 19, mounted in suitable bearings 20 on the truck-frame 3. The main body portion of this crank-shaft 19 is angular in cross-section, and mounted thereon for sliding movements is'a spur-pinion 21, which meshes with'a spur-gear 24, rigidly secured to the axle 2. By the lever 22 the pinion 21 may be slid laterallyinto and out of mesh with the gear 24, so as to throw the crankshaft, and hence the piston of the pump, made up of the cylinder 9 and piston-valve 1() 11, into and out of action at will.

The cylinder 9 at its lower end opens into a valve-chest 25, rigidly secured to the bottom of the tank 6 and provided with a dischar eport 26, in which is mounted a check-va ve 27 of the fia per ty e, which valve permits an outward ow of t e liquid, but revents a return or backward flow. A disc arge-pipe 28 leads outward and forward from the dischargeort 26 and, as shown, terminates in a pronge coupling 29. Flexible discharge lpipes or hose 30 are coupled onto the prongs of the coupling 29, and these hose-sections llead to discharge-nozzles 31, shown as sup- .ported by levers 32, mounted on supportingrodsp33, suitably secured, as shown, to the IIO- y puisant i 'ntf-firm? tto portfm o?.q

a Short vertea T"oto the 1oottom of e he-casing 37, :md :1 supplemental eef' t the (Werotwplpe ez'ugis .trom till@ @eeuw and opens into the'uppo p titoli 55. The Dassage tlu'olt t1 the oar;-

`whiehte1eeoopes into the valve 39 end o sedi .l ,nt is ef'iewo to Mmmm A. bot-tol in ft continuous stream out tu .o seharge-ppe 2o.

.qud Wl oe discharged om the nez les 33 5 'out that portion which does not? its escape from seid nozzles Wi'i be 'oeod .into the air-hemmt and when the ptos"- the' spv' i the overow Valve 1.3.0 said 'alve opened am a portion of' the l@ I will o? L .lnea-. to the tink o'. The ai? eogoed in t), ohember 35 above ythe towel* end of the 1e-A. .Jeeton 36a cannot escape trom Sam amamos?. hence 1s compressed mit lts, tension on the liquid u1 the dlsolmzgo-3 1pe tiefe-os; up

an uninterrupted dow or dist-,barge 1T .m the making it upward inoperative stlo3 tension. under which the sont egimuber 35 wf not to maintain. at oo? 'g 'on the upper end of 'the Spi g 4G, ustments of the Screw 43. the tension of t 40 may be'varied, so to hot/. the

i. "ve 3Q closed under :any desired tension.

The main poltion ot' the spray 1- 1 l will me Soo/pe c, 1 d claimen desire to soc-uro by Le? t, *e 'ted States, is es foows: ewzton with e, Whoeed truck .ted thereon, of ojlude ,s tuougfh the bof' en agitato? Iig 1y' and @im 1e pmnp-oeton, stzztnel d di'ecty seemed. to pump for leepoottmg th pu lo advance movement the o outlet-tube oadng om )etanttdly 21S-described. .j11zttion with' e, Wheeled truck a Qt; uounteel thereon., of a cylinder 10 mg t'u'ough the bottom of said tank, a pist/mettait@ "vaforkng in said oyliude and. p'cwided with stem I2 Workg upward through seid. tank, a Walking-beam n'iounted on seid :mk and attached et one end to the uopo? e 1istem 12, am agitator 17 apstr: md pieton-f d, o, oonlsmft of the Whe-.els of truck, e, ting said emnksh.:1ft tosaid d devery-tubo leading uit termin. ug in a spmy- 1y 1b.? notion with o, wheeled truck .,munted tlleeoin., of it Cj/ner "op e'tendng though the betr means for opelietug Sad pump um toe advance movement of the m chine, o wud Vemhest s ul'ounttlu .le loWel Dertien ont Sodo oyndel', am outettube leadf t Va/'e-oileet to e'orag-nozrae,

" oomnmnootng 'th the ntioo. oit' outetwube and teadng tf1-om the 1:59pm' por emmef beek into seid tank, oe described.

` whereof I afix my sgmttule two "witneseea Hey f5.5 secured to. 

